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THEATER OF ABSURD
The art works gathered here come from different moments and tensions, but they all have the same impulse: to record the moment when structures fail, symbols break down and the absurd imposes itself as the only certainty.
The idea is not to offer answers, but to invite the viewer to enter that intermediate, unstable space, where reality becomes blurry and time ceases to advance in a linear fashion. Each work is a fissure, a trace, a scene within a theater without a script.
Brick falling over the head
90x70cm
2025
It’s not a metaphor. Just absurd chance, centimeters from ending everything
Jonkie bird believes that everything is fine
90x70cm
2025
Calm while everything falls down. Denial is the only jonkie bird existence
Bird king with red shoes
150x100cm
2025
Yesterday he ruled, today he drifts. His kingdom? Only ruins
FRAGMENTED BODIES SERIE
Selfportrait
50x70cm
2017
Bones, tongue, flesh. A body breaking while affirming itself
San Vito Dance
2017
just a choreography of convulsion
Marioneta (Puppet)
35x25cm
No strings, no freedom either
El gato
2017
25x30cm
Just observing the landscape and cannot modify it.
Man with umbrella
2023
A useless gesture, waiting for something that never comes
RUINS OF THE FUTURE
Buildings are not just structures; they are testimonies of time. They rise like as abstract prisons, monolithic blocks frozen at their breaking point, having supported too much, for too long. Now they break.
This is not a vision of destruction as an ending. When structures break, they always take something with them.
These are not ancient ruins or futuristic dystopias; they are cities captured just before collapse.
This is not a vision of destruction as an ending. When structures break, they always take something with them.
These are not ancient ruins or futuristic dystopias; they are cities captured just before collapse.
Escalera
90x75cm
2019
Promises ascent, leads nowhere. A city dreaming of itself
145x90cm
2019
Not water: overflowing paint, a city swallowed by its own anxiety
Nubes de angustia
100x150cm
2019
No past or future. Just the instant before everything collapses. Casandra dreams
Sonambulo caminando de noche
Sleepwalker at night
110x70cm
2019-2024
CAVERN AND ECHOES
This series is a bridge between the prehistoric and the contemporary, as if the walls of a modern cave were covered with the remains of a collapse. The use of automatic lines and faded backgrounds evoke archaeological fragments, something about to be erased.
The paintings are read as echoes of a civilization in decay, the figures are not heroes or mythological beings, but entities that are trapped in the collapse. They are records of human fragility in times of acceleration and destruction, in a world that is disappearing in front of our eyes.
Cavern #1 – The Shaman of the Cave
40x40cm
2019
Cavern #2 – The Leaning Tower
40x40cm
2019
Cavern #3 – The Witness of the Cave
40x40cm
2019
XXI Century Caveman II
100x70
2019
XXI Century caveman
110x70cm
2019
Saqueadores del pasado (Plunderers of the past)
90x50cm
2019
PRIMITIVE GARTEN
In Primitive Garten, ruin is not a relic of the past but the ground for ongoing transformation. These images hold no romanticism: concrete cracks, the jungle devours it, and scars multiply across the surface. Nature is not a refuge, it is an organism that absorbs, assimilates, and distorts what remains. It is the present, the only structure that persists when everything else has failed.
The human presence fades into stains, erratic lines, and expanding fissures. Architecture does not disappear, but it no longer belongs to us.
The human presence fades into stains, erratic lines, and expanding fissures. Architecture does not disappear, but it no longer belongs to us.
SCRATCHES
50x70cm
2017
CEMETERY GARDEN
2017
Dragon flyng
2017
CONCRETE CONSUMED BY JUNGLE
35x25cm
2017
Song of the donkey
50x70cm
2017